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Show votes hor entire time to tho work. Every day tea, with milk ami sugar, is supplied by the firm free of charge; oaten meal is furnished thres days in tho week at the came rate, ami every other day soup is served at three cents a bowl. Tho entire floor is carefully cemented; it is light, warm and clean, and there aro tables and benches for those who lunch in the building. An hour is allowed, at noun, and while all are expected to be on hand promptly at I o'clock, the girls living at a distance from .the factory are per-1 mitted to leave before 1J o'clock. An open fireplace is one of the attractive features of tho reception room, and there is a mantel mirror, too that means of grace so dear to tho sex. .No charges are Jmjxised upon the op'-erators. op'-erators. They douot have to buy thread, pay machine rent or replace broken needles. nee-dles. If an attachment is displaced it is restored by tho firm, and even the girls' scissors .are kept sharpened at the expense ex-pense of capital. Hot and cold water, mirrors, towels and boap ui'e among the couveuiencuii i, ' ''0W9 la otAet t0 get a much needed M'X ' rest, and thus deprifiog him of any VSN7 recreation he would be able to get, if th8 store cIosod n rlier hour- M C , ffV I Now a few words to the clerks them- f'W VpkW selves. It has been hinted to me that a tf$ftcJll $ rtylirt) good manv of the clerks, and more es- 'fW?VpSaagT pecially those in some of the largest fiWi stores are afraid to say or ft'j 9.-' yfrci do y thiuR for this B"od 3f tVlfi r-S cauV oa couut of offending your s!lK MV employers or losing your situation. jf yft, ' Now, there is nothing so mean as a Y Cv (T) J moral coward, and I can tell you this U one fact, that the moment your em- once in order to get a much needed rest, and thus depriTiog him of any recreation he would be able to get, f the store closed at an earlier hour. Now a few words to the clerks themselves. them-selves. It has been hinted to me that a good many of the ciei ks, and more especially es-pecially those in some of the largest stores are afraid to say or do any thiug for this good cause, on acoouut of offending your employers or losing your situation. Now, there is nothing so mean as a moral coward, and I can tell you this one fact, that the moment jour employer em-ployer finds that you are afraid to move or say anything for the union, Le will make it so much harder for you. He manly aud show yourselves to be men, and while I would not have you do anything that is mean or against your employers' interest, yet stand up up for your rights and you will not only succeed, but your employers will think a great deal'more of you. Wishing Wish-ing you all the best success possible, I am, A WoiiKEit. Min.ra or Initio. Members of the Miners Union in Tin-tic Tin-tic are complaining that many of them who took a prominent part in the recent re-cent unpleasantness there ever coin-pan coin-pan v stores aud boarding houses, are being discharged with ami without pro-toxts, pro-toxts, if they do not continue to trade or board where the companies would like to have them. If the statements are true and can be substantiated, then the mine have even a greater grievance than they had before. Will FrolmMj l. Kefnsad, The impression is prevails that the committee who recently waited on the directors of the Mammoth Mining Company Com-pany askiug that the restriction on their liberties be removed so that they could board where they pleased, will fail in accomplishing their desires in this regard. re-gard. Hut w hether or not the requests of the miners are acceeded to, the senti- mnnt. nf nx,rlv AVfrvlmdv Will B,1V: Tlie Children of the Toor. The children who aro old enough to go to school are in a sad way. They must not play baseball or nny other athletic game; to do so is to make themselves them-selves liable to arrest. They have no, playgrounds; but gambling with pen-, nies in a corner can be managed easily;, and on almost every block thero is some house where they can learn the nobler games af chance, and things worse even' than gambling. Thero are houses that specially cater to: childish vice stores having partitionsiff the rear, behind which children practica'i prostitution. So long as the street is th only playground for the children thS evil spirits among their number those who rule in these hells must exercise a powerful influence on companions whoj. if they were grunted better surroundings, would escape contamination. 1 Bin prepared pre-pared to say that our chief work today should be done among the children. Our strength aud our time are limited; we want to plant our blows where they will tell most, to sow our seeds where they will have the best chance to grow. . A man or a woman who has pursued an evil course from childhood is almost always past help at twenty-five, speaking speak-ing generally; but tho children can he saved. They cannot, however, bo saved by public schools, nor yet by Sunday schools. They are not being saved; they are passing from bad to worse, and nothing noth-ing can rescue thera but an awalSenod, f 'lirwt i!n KontitnATif-. that will Tint. :liia Wages in the different building trades are as good in this city as in almost any other place in the United States, and this fact has had the effect of attracting at-tracting here a good class of workmen and at the same time another ciass not quite so adept in the manipulation of tools, but who were nevertheless willing will-ing to draw the highest pay. Owing to the tightness of the money market last winter, capital has not wholly recov-, ered from the shock which it received and is naturally timid about embarking in any new venture, and therefore many of the large building enterprises contemplated earlier in the season have been delayed and will probably not go on this year. For this reason the market mar-ket here is fully supplied in every skilled trade as well as in tho ranks of common labor. Nearly every contractor contrac-tor or employer gives the information that he could double his force in half a day from the list of applicants if he so desired. Th Ogdfta Difficulty. from Thursday's Standard. The strike in the painters' department tssumed greater proportions yesterday, and if the differences are to continue other unions would probably be asked to drop in and aid, thereby bringing the building business virtually to a oviiiiii mill. ik r an aiaicti ju a m-cwa i a paper that Mr. Morris had told the painters at work on the Stayner block that unless they went to work that morning they could pick up their tools and quit. Tuesday morning came around and the painters failed to go to work. Mr. Morris then put on two non union men and three union men who were willing to work. Yesterday he received notice from the painters engaged on his other qontracts, some eight or ten men, that they wouid quit tiniess he took off his men from the Staynur building." They" were told that it hey cared not to work they could uit and, it is understood, they have one so. Mr. Morris stated that he ejected ej-ected three of the men he put on the i ill-fated buildine would be ordered olf that day by the Central Labor union, but it was not learned w hether such order hail been given or not. The Bricklayers' union has not joined this strike, i heir resolutions of sympathy, sym-pathy, as published yesterday morning, does not inen a lock-nut from that source. At the commencement of the strike they published a card stating, iu effect, that they were satUlied with their wages and hours aud would join no la hor agitation this summer. From this fact Mr. Morris considers it strange that the painters' union even though in sympathy with the carpenters, should join the agitation when they aro satisfied, satis-fied, and have no complaint to make cf their own condition. Last evening a conference was held bet ween the executive committee of the Central Labor union and the Builders' exchange at the latter's moms in the First National bank building. The session lasted over three hours, the union presenting the following demands: de-mands: Ri'snlved: Art. 1st. That on an l after th let day of May. IH.n. nine hours for live days tn the wt'.k ami eiirht hours ou Saturdays shall constitute a .'av'H work. Unsolved: Art, vd. That all overtime shall hn paid tin,e am; a half, and double time fur Bundav. 1 - - 'j tj i 'They are right." lliCht and Wrong. It soems, according to an interview recently re-cently published in The JJuffalo Express, that wages are much lower in that city than in other towns of the same class. In this interview a leading labor man said to the reporter that the reason why wages were higher in New York city than in Buffalo is that the standard of living of the workers in the' former is higher. . "Their necessities are greater; tney dres better, eat better, and are better bet-ter housed in short, live better. That is what causes higher wages." "Not the laws of supply and demand?" queried the reporter. "No, that is tho old worn out theory of the old fchool of political economists, that wages rise and fall according to the laws of supply ami demand. Wages are regulated by the standard of living, as the later political economists admit. People who live in two small, ill fur-nished fur-nished rooms, and who faro on low diet, can get along on lower wages titan those who live moro rationally. Where the bt.tndard is low, as in Buffalo, wages ure low." This is true to a great extent, yet it is also true that tho standard of living can be and is raised by the laborers themselves. them-selves. There is no disputing "the iron law of wages," which the Buffalo man evidently indorses, but it is not true that labor is exempt from the operations of the law of supply and demand. Let nio explain: If there are continually a great many more applicants for a certain kind of work than there are places, and competition compe-tition for the jobs is unrestrained by the powers of organization, then those who are willing to live for least set the rata of wages iu that industry. Where the unions are enabled, through reducing tho hours of labor or otherwise, to cut flour,! flio ...n.iMt.tif.'.-tn ,F li 41, u till their surroundings are euch as will give tho divinity within them 'some chance to grow. Eev. W. S. Eaiasford in Forum. J Too Much riukertou. S t Dragging in Pinkerton's men to assist in quelling disturbances which the state should attend to with its own forces is a very poor way of dealing with a difll-culty. difll-culty. The coke workers who are oa strike, will'.aot leave their juia-rabt homes with very good grace under the coercion of these hirelings who are employed em-ployed against them. Who can blame the miners for resenting resent-ing hard usage from fellows who do not come armed with state authority, but are hired as bricklayers might be for their job? This is only stirring the strikers up and egging them on to violence. vio-lence. If they niU6t be dealt with strongly, let those who are the representatives repre-sentatives of state authority so deal with them. Such a thing as these armed men interfering on private authorization authoriza-tion should be stopped in every state. It is un-American and evil. New York Evening World. The t'rnlilrni AVe Ignore. In company with Miss Ida Van Etten, Mrs. Annie Besant made a tour of some of New York city's slums. What she saw in Ludlow street seemed to astound this woman so f.-'.miliar with the worst phases of poverty iu London. She said to Miss Van Etten: "You have a peculiar clement which enters into questions of municipal life that we have not in London. I see that every face ii foreign. These people seem to speak no English. They have customs of their own countries, of which they seem to have been the lowest class. Methods for Lettering their condition and surrounding-) must necessarily be changed from those we use when we have only English to deal with. It is an Unsolved: Art. .1!. Tr.at carpenters Helpers Help-ers be lirtly lorlii'liifn th,. um- of my rarpen-tMt-H tools, when employed on hrnhliiifc,s. nult?s liired i y the mnployer a apprentice for tin fcpaoeof tweivo mouths. The secoud article was conceded by the exchange. The third article was conceded by the union. This left the only dithculty on the tirst article and there they stuck. The union conceded the payment of the extra hour, willing to lose that amount, but objected to the "docking." This they did on the ( ground that if conceding a reduction of one hour's pay on Saturday they would injure the interests of other trades unions now enjoying the benefits of the first article. They asked that they be paid by the day at a rate sufficiently less than present nine - hour day Wages to cover the loss of the free hour on Saturday. To illustrate: If paid $3.00 for a nine-hour day instead of paying t'i 20 for eight hours on Saturday, Sat-urday, distribute the difference of 40 cents on the six days making the actual wages of a 43. fiO day $!(.0u. Thus there would be no loss to the contractor, the carpenter would get his Saturday hour without pay and other unions would be protected. The last concession the exchange refused re-fused to accept, taking nothing but an absolute one hour reduction in wages on Saturday. No agreement was.therefore reached and now the carpenters propose to tight in earnest, having yielded, as they consider, everything that is just, asking no pay for work not performed, simply asking for equal day payment throughout through-out the week. K.'all Clarlu. Editor of The Times: It was with pleasure I noticed in Tiik Times a few weeks ago an announcement that the retail clerks of this city would meet for ihe purpose of organizing a Retail Clerk's union, and a few days later I Saw they had perfected an organization. organiza-tion. Now this is as it should be, for if any one ever needed shorter hours it is a Salesman, who stands on his feet from 4:.,l) in tho morning until ! and 10 o'clock at night. It is too much, I say, for any man, as he is not only all tired ?ut at closing time, but when he goes butoe he is compelled to co to bed at standard of living is kept up. The "iron law'' used to be defined as tho infallible rule which fixes the wages at the amount which tho workers can live upon. Now it in modified through the operations of the unions to mean tho amount they icifl live upon. So, while it is true that, under tho competitive system, sys-tem, wages will always bo measured by the standard of living, it is equally truo that the standard is subject in a great measure to the operations of competition competi-tion iu the labor market. When the laborers all understand that they are subject to the laws cf competition, competi-tion, and that they must take a lesson from the railroads, Standard Oil company com-pany and the like, and through combination combina-tion control tho market, tho throat cutting cut-ting phase of competition can be controlled, con-trolled, aud tiie standard of living raised to the highest possible notch. Jos. R. Buchanan. i The Model Factory. A waist factory in Newark, N. J., which employs 8;J0 young women, is described de-scribed by a correspondent as follows: They are treated not only like hnman beings but like civilized people, 'here are bath tubs in the factory, with an abundance of hot aud cold water, linen towels and toiiet soap. Did any one ever hear of such luxuries in a factory of any sort? In tlin girls' bathroom there are rngs under foot, the finishing is done in oak, the trimmings are nickel plated, the sanitary arrang-'tnenu are perfect, and everything is as bright and clean as it is possiblo to make it. Each employe is allowed thirty minutes for a bath, and if one is so fastidious as to need three-quarters three-quarters of an hour no comments are made. The "Model Factory," as it is called in trade, was erected about a year ago. The building looks more like a nunnery than a factory. There are white curtains on every window in the house. Those who desire can purchase a noonday noon-day lunch at actual coat of material. The cook in charge of the kitchen, tfe. intricate social problem riin you. Xte smells of these stree's aro worse than ve have in the foulest districts of London. The filth docs not seem to be removed as it should bo. Hut tho exhalations from tne horses doubtless increase the unfavorable unfa-vorable street conditions." To Entertain I. T. U. Delegate. The ex-delegates of the International Typographical union resident in New' York city have organized for the pnr-poso pnr-poso of entertaining such of the Boston convention, which meets in June, as will accept an invitation to visit tho metropolis. Thero aro about 100 ex-delegates in New York city, sixty of whom have represented '-Big 6," the others having been delegates from other unions throughout the country. It is intended to provide a steamboat excursion to Rockaway Beach and Coney Island on Sunday, Juno 14, aud to have a clam bake and lots ui other kinds of fun. An Object LfMon. The Brooklyn bridge is owned by the municipalities of New York and Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. It is by long odds the best managed man-aged transit scheme iu the vicinity. The fares are three cents for ears and one cent for pedestrians, and the income is so much more than the operating expenses ex-penses and interest on investment that the toll is to be taken off of pedestrians and teams, and the car fare is soon to be reduced. Here is an example for those who think the government cannot run the railways, national and city. Tho Indians of Alaska, who are in jreat demand as seal hunters, have htruck for higher wages. They demand I seven dollars for every seal taken, which ! the sealing captains are unwilling to 1 give. Seals are reported to be especially numerous this season, and the sealers are anxious to get after them. The strike I is a very serious matter to them at this time. Ten of the Victoria sealing fleet are now at Ueubet, waiting- to make k'rmsjsvith he Indiauadiichangej |